From the car to Concorde

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The story of the Marshall Group reads like a barely believable history of the 20th century.

At the dawn of the age of the automobile, David Marshall, acquired a car and a lock-up and started a chauffeuring service for Cambridge’s well-heeled. By the outbreak of the First World War, the business had developed into servicing and repairing other people’s motors. By the 1920s, Marshalls was the local showoom distributor for the burgeoning Austin Motors group.

Meanwhile, the emergency landing on Jesus Green, Cambridge, of an early airship got Marshalls into the nascent aerospace maintenance game.